Centralized Syslog Made Easy

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I am a self-taught Linux Systems Administrator currently living and working in Washington. I love teaching, learning, and Free Software. I spoke at SeaGL 2017 and look forward to SeaGL 2018. I also enjoy exploring the worlds of cooking and music.

No video of the event yet, sorry!

If you have a lot of servers, then you have a lot of logfiles. If you have a lot of logfiles, then you probably want one place to look at all of them.

This talk will cover:

How to set up a centralized syslog server

How to point your other servers' syslog daemons to the centralized server

Security implications of centralizing syslog

Security advantages of centralizing syslog

Best practices and common pitfalls of centralized syslogging

What to do with all these logfiles

There will be time at the end for Questions And Answers, and the slides, along with a recording of the talk, will be uploaded afterwards.